COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA LEGISLATIVE ELECTION OF 14 NOVEMBER 1925 ==================================================================== Parties -------------------------------------------------------------------- * ALP - Australian Labor Party * CP - Country Party * Nat - Nationalist Party BY-ELECTIONS 1925-28 ==================================================================== EDEN-MONARO, NSW 40,760 enrolled, 35,189 (86.3%) voted ==================================================================== South Coast NSW: Bega, Moss Vale, Nowra, Yass -------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 March 1926, following the death of Hon Sir Austin Chapman -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1925 two-party majority: Nationalist over ALP 14.6 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Morgan ALP 13,729 40.0 (+04.6) John PERKINS Nat 20,573 60.0 (-04.6) -------------------------------------------------------------------- 887 (02.5%) informal 34,302 10.0 04.6 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- For Morgan, see Reid 1940. -------------------------------------------------------------------- John Arthur Perkins (1878-1954): Elected 1926 By Born: 18 May 1878, Tumut, NSW. Career: Educated Tumut. Farmer and bookseller, Cooma. Cooma Council. State politics: NSW MLA for Goulburn 1921-26. -------------------------------------------------------------------- DALLEY, NSW 40,729 enrolled, 36,370 (89.3%) voted ==================================================================== Inner Sydney: Annandale, Balmain, Leichhardt, Rozelle -------------------------------------------------------------------- 26 February 1927, following the resignation of William Mahony -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1925 two-party majority: ALP over Nationalist 14.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Walter Gee Nat 12,667 37.4 (+01.5) Hon Edward THEODORE ALP 21,186 62.6 (-01.5) -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2,517 (06.9%) informal 33,853 12.6 01.5 to Nat -------------------------------------------------------------------- Edward Granville Theodore (1884-1950): Elected 1927 By Born: 29 May 1884, Adelaide. Career: Primary education. Labourer. To Western Australia goldfields 1900. To Queensland 1910, miner Chillagoe. Union activist, President Queensland Branch, Australian Workers Union 1913. State politics: Qld MLA for Woothakata 1909-12, Chillagoe 1912-25. Treasurer 1915-19, 1922-25, Secretary for Public Works 1915-19, 1922, Premier and Chief Secretary 1919-25, Secretary for Lands 1920 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Theodore had resigned as Premier of Queensland in 1925 to enter federal politics but had failed to win the seat of Herbert, Queensland, at the general election. Like his predecessor as Premier, Thomas Ryan, he was found a NSW seat in the hope that he would become federal ALP leader. In 1928 a Royal Commission found that Mahony had been bribed to resign his seat, probably at the instigation of Theodore, but this was never proved. -------------------------------------------------------------------- WARRINGAH, NSW 46,870 enrolled, 41,422 (88.4%) voted ==================================================================== Suburban Sydney: Manly, Mosman, Narrabeen, Neutral Bay -------------------------------------------------------------------- 21 May 1927, following the resignation of Hon Sir Granville Ryrie -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1925 two-party majority: Nationalist over ALP 30.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Conway ALP 3,159 07.8 William Fell 7,477 18.5 Ambrose O'Gorman ALP 4,285 10.6 Archdale PARKHILL Nat 22,583 55.8 (-24.3) Thomas Roberts 2,990 07.4 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 928 (02.2%) informal 40,494 19.6 e 10.5 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Fell was NSW MLA for North Shore 1922-27. He was an independent Nationalist candidate. 2. Conway and O'Gorman are both described as ALP candidates. Conway was chosen by the NSW ALP state executive, O'Gorman by the local branches. NSW Premier Jack Lang supported O'Gorman, the federal ALP supported Conway. This dispute prefigured the split between the NSW and federal ALP in 1931. 3. The combined ALP vote was 18.4%, a decline of 1.5% from the 19.9% polled by one ALP candidate in 1925. 4. Roberts was a Constitutionalist candidate. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Archdale Parkhill (1879-1947): Elected 1927 By Born: 27 August 1879, Sydney. Career: Educated public schools. Full-time party official from 1902, Liberal then Nationalist. Secretary NSW Nationalist Party 1917-28. -------------------------------------------------------------------- MARTIN, NSW 59,535 enrolled, 52,039 (87.4%) voted ==================================================================== Suburban Sydney: Burwood, Drummoyne, Gordon, Hunters Hill -------------------------------------------------------------------- 16 June 1928, following the death of Hon Herbert Pratten -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1925 two-party majority: Nationalist over ALP 14.8 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Percy Hannett ALP 18,922 39.1 (+03.9) Frederick PRATTEN Nat 29,482 60.9 (-03.9) -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3,635 (07.0%) informal 48,404 10.9 03.9 to ALP -------------------------------------------------------------------- Frederick Graham Pratten (1899-1977): Elected 1928 By Born: 3 December 1899, Sydney. Career: Educated North Sydney Grammar School, University of Sydney. Military Service 1917-18. Managing director, family companies. Nephew of Hon Herbert Pratten MP. --------------------------------------------------------------------